Yeti To Rumble

Yeti To Rumble is hosted by Mitch and Russell, two curious minds who tackle cryptids, UAPs, and the paranormal with equal parts research and ridiculousness. From Bigfoot to folklore, history to hilarity, they dig into the mysteries of the world—one strange story at a time. Episodes drop every Wednesday. Social Media: https://x.com/yetitorumble?s=21&t=mQT1BaTy1hVhF67khcjoQg https://www.facebook.com/share/19jqgBY9ws/?mibextid=wwXIfr Contact: Yetitorumble@gmail.com

Yeti To Rumble is a society podcast hosted by Russell Jenson & Mitch Daines, with 47 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Russell Jenson & Mitch Daines hosts Yeti To Rumble, a society show with 47 episodes published.

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  Episode #47

  47. Mary Celeste: The Ghost Ship That Wasn't

  Sep 9, 202633 min

  The Mary Celeste left New York on November 7th, 1872, bound for Genoa with ten people aboard Captain Benjamin Briggs, Sarah Briggs, toddler Sophia, and seven crew. Ten days after her last log entry, the Dei Gratia found her drifting near the Azores: wet, disordered, and empty. British vice admiralty hearings in Gibraltar ran into 1873. Surveys, chemical tests, and conflicting theories piled up. We cover the court evidence, the empty alcohol barrels, Arthur Conan Doyle’s later fiction, and why the people from that voyage were never found. Sources: 1. Vice Admiralty Court, Gibraltar — Mary Celeste salvage hearings (court proceedings, Dec 1872–Apr 1873) 2. Jess Blumberg / Smithsonian Magazine — Abandoned Ship: The Mary Celeste (article, Nov 2007) 3. Royal Museums Greenwich — The mystery of the Mary Celeste (museum essay) 4. Charles Edey Fay — The Story of the Mary Celeste (book, 1942; archival salvage study) 5. Paul Begg — Mary Celeste: The Greatest Mystery of the Sea (book) 6. Brian Hicks — Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew (book, 2004) 7. Macdonald Hastings — writing on Briggs and the abandonment decision (quoted in secondary maritime histories) 8. Andrea Sella / UCL — pressure-wave alcohol-vapor hold experiment for Channel Five (2006) 9. Anne MacGregor & Phil Richardson — The True Story of the Mary Celeste (Smithsonian Channel documentary research) 10. Arthur Conan Doyle — J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement, Cornhill Magazine (short story, Jan 1884)

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  Episode #46

  #46 Project 112: The Tests They Ran on Their Own Sailors

  Sep 2, 202652 min

  Project 112 and Project SHAD were run out of the Deseret Test Center in Salt Lake City from 1962 to 1973, and the military denied both existed until CBS broke the story in May 2000. Sailors aboard the USS George Eastman and USS Granville S. Hall were exposed to sarin, VX, Q fever, and tularemia. Aircraft sprayed Oahu. One test ran inside Pearl Harbor. In March 1968 a VX release at Dugway Proving Ground drifted 27 miles into Skull Valley and killed thousands of sheep, and the Army paid rancher Alvin Hatch $376,685 while admitting nothing. Mitch and Russell go through the declassified fact sheets, the Senate testimony, and the two studies that complicate all of it. Mitch's Podcast: The Gamer High Council on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5MCyP4DEsY6BZNYCeQU8yM?si=5f85f7304c814d4a Sources: 1. U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Personnel — The Department of Defense's Inquiry Into Project 112/Shipboard Hazard and Defense (SHAD) Tests, S.Hrg. 107-861, hearing of October 10, 2002 (congressional hearing record) 2. Institute of Medicine — Long-Term Health Effects of Participation in Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense), National Academies Press, 2007 (congressionally mandated study) 3. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — Assessing Health Outcomes Among Veterans of Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense), National Academies Press, 2016; committee chaired by David J. Tollerud (follow-up study; Table 2-1 is the source for test names, dates, ships, and agents) 4. U.S. Government Accountability Office — Chemical and Biological Defense: DOD Needs to Continue to Collect and Provide Information on Tests and on Potentially Exposed Personnel, GAO-04-410, May 14, 2004 (government report) 5. U.S. Government Accountability Office — Chemical and Biological Defense: DOD and VA Need to Improve Efforts to Identify and Notify Individuals Potentially Exposed during Chemical and Biological Tests, GAO-08-366, 2008 (government report) 6. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) — Project 112/SHAD unclassified test fact sheets, released 2002–2003, health.mil (primary government documents) 7. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs — Project 112/Project SHAD, Public Health and Compensation program pages (agency guidance on eligibility and presumptive status) 8. Public Law 107-314 — Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003, signed December 2, 2002 (statute requiring DoD disclosure to VA) 9. Leonard A. Cole — Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Areas, 1988 (book) 10. Jim Woolf — Salt Lake Tribune reporting, 1998, on the previously unreleased Army report concluding VX caused the Skull Valley sheep deaths (contemporaneous journalism) 11. Richard Nixon — Statement on Chemical and Biological Defense Policies and Programs, Fort Detrick, Maryland, November 25, 1969 (presidential statement) 12. Military.com — investigative feature on the 1968 Dugway sheep incident, February 26, 2026 (journalism; source for the $376,685 settlement to rancher Alvin Hatch, Rep. Richard McCarthy's May 1969 hearings, and Utah's economic dependence on the military) 13. CBS Evening News — May 2000 investigative reports that first publicly broke the existence of Project 112 and Project SHAD (broadcast journalism)

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  45. Mokele-Mbembe: Hunting a Living Dinosaur in the Congo

  Aug 26, 20261 hour

  In 1913, a German army captain wrote down the first account of mokele-mbembe, a creature Congo Basin locals said could stop the flow of rivers. Since then, researchers including biochemist Roy Mackal and engineer Herman Regusters have led expeditions to Lake Tele hoping to prove a living dinosaur survived extinction. We cover the 1981 Regusters sighting, the 1983 Agnagna encounter, the creationist funding behind many of the searches, and why sightings are climbing again today. Nearly fifty expeditions in, the mystery still isn't settled. Mitch's Podcast: The Gamer High Council on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5MCyP4DEsY6BZNYCeQU8yM?si=db07686bce744394 Sources: 1. Roy Mackal — A Living Dinosaur? In Search of Mokele-Mbembe (book, 1987) 2. Bernard Heuvelmans — On the Track of Unknown Animals (book, 1955) 3. Redmond O'Hanlon — Congo Journey (book, 1996) 4. Abbé Liévain Bonaventure Proyart — Histoire de Loango, Kakongo, et autres royaumes d'Afrique (book, 1776) 5. Captain Ludwig Freiherr von Stein zu Lausnitz — German colonial-era wildlife survey report (1913) 6. Herman Regusters — expedition account published in Cryptozoology journal and Munger Africana Library Notes (1981–1982) 7. Donald Prothero — quoted in Loxton & Prothero, Abominable Science! (book, 2013) 8. National Geographic — "What's behind the strange rash of 'dinosaur' sightings in the Congo?" (article) 9. IFLScience — "Sightings Of The Legendary Mokele-Mbembe 'Dinosaur' Of The Congo Are Increasing. What Is Going On?" (article) 10. UPI Archives — "An amateur explorer who says he discovered a dinosaur-like..." (news article, 1985) 11. Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World — television series segment on the Powell/Mackal expeditions (1980) 12. Wikipedia — "Mokele-mbembe" (reference article) 13. Wikipedia — "Lake Tele" (reference article) 14. Damn Interesting — "The Tracks of the Mokèlé-mbèmbé" (article) 15. Wondermondo — "Lake Tele" (article) 16. Frontiers of Zoology — "Was a Mokele-mbembe killed at Lake Tele?" (investigative blog post, 2012)

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  Episode #44

  44. 2026 UFO Files: Cold Orbs and the FBI Watch Case

  Aug 19, 202657 min

  Straight from the Department of War's fifth UAP release: DOW-UAP-D101, the Gulf of Oman gunship encounter from September 2021, and four 2026 FBI FD-302 interview forms that haven't been covered anywhere else. Cold orbs on infrared. A digital video recorder that "inexplicably failed." Red lights along a mountain ridgeline. A witness who tried his thermal optic and got nothing back. This episode goes case number by case number, straight from war.gov . Mitch's Podcast: The Gamer High Council https://open.spotify.com/show/5MCyP4DEsY6BZNYCeQU8yM?si=b3b09b884daa4549 Sources: 1. U.S. Department of War — DOW-UAP-D101, Intelligence Information Report, "Multiple Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Observed Maneuvering Erratically and In Formation Over Gulf of Oman During AC-130 Gunship Live Fire Training on 8 September 2021" (government document, dated 27 April 2022, declassified 7 August 2026) — war.gov/UFO , release 05 2. U.S. Department of War / AARO — DOW-UAP-PR117 through PR122, Unresolved UAP Report, Gulf of Oman, 2021 (six government video clips, released 7 August 2026) — dvidshub.net 3. Federal Bureau of Investigation — FBI-UAP-D032, FD-302, "Slow-moving Objects," 2026 (government document, declassified 7 August 2026) — war.gov/UFO , release 05 4. Federal Bureau of Investigation — FBI-UAP-D033, FD-302, "Thermally Elevated Aerial Object," 2026 (government document, declassified 7 August 2026) — war.gov/UFO , release 05 5. Federal Bureau of Investigation — FBI-UAP-D037, FD-302, "Multiple Red Lights," 2026 (government document, three pages, declassified 7 August 2026) — war.gov/UFO , release 05 6. Federal Bureau of Investigation — FBI-UAP-D040, FD-302, "Multiple Red Lights," 2026, telephonic interview of the second witness (government document, declassified 7 August 2026) — war.gov/UFO , release 05 7. Federal Bureau of Investigation — FBI-UAP-D038, D039, D041 and D042, digital renderings, Multiple Red Lights, 2026 (government images, released 7 August 2026) — war.gov/UFO , release 05 8. U.S. Department of War / AARO — FBI-UAP-PR007, "Slow-moving Objects," 2026 (government video, 10 seconds, released 7 August 2026) — dvidshub.net 9. U.S. Department of War — PURSUE programme page, presidential directive text, and the archive definition of "unresolved" (government website, 2026) — war.gov/UFO 10. Sean Parnell, Assistant to the Secretary of War for Public Affairs — statement on the fifth PURSUE release (government press release, 7 August 2026) 11. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War — public statements on the PURSUE releases (2026)

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  Episode #43

  43. Lost Colony of Roanoke: The New DNA Evidence

  Aug 12, 20261h 4m

  In 1587, John White's colonists vanish from Roanoke Island, leaving behind one carved word and no cross of distress. Mitch and Jake walk through the full case: the 1590 search, the Dare Stones hoax, a hidden symbol found under a paper patch on White's own map, and the Hatteras Island dig where a 2025-2026 DNA study may have finally identified what happened to the Lost Colony. Mitch's other podcast: The Gamer High Council https://open.spotify.com/show/5MCyP4DEsY6BZNYCeQU8yM?si=8e9193eb42fe4c2b Sources: 1. John White — journal account of the 1590 Roanoke voyage, printed in Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations (1600) 2. National Park Service, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site — historical overview ( nps.gov/fora ) 3. William Strachey — The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia (manuscript, c. 1612) 4. Colonial Williamsburg — "What Happened to the Lost Colony?" Trend & Tradition Magazine (Spring 2025) 5. National Geographic — "We Finally Have Clues to How the Lost Roanoke Colony Vanished" (2015) 6. National Geographic — "Newfound Survivor Camp May Explain Fate of the Famed Lost Colony of Roanoke" (2021) 7. University of Bristol — "August: Lost Colony of Roanoke," News and Features ( bristol.ac.uk ) 8. Artnet News — "Archaeologists May Have Finally Solved the Mystery of the Disappearance of Roanoke's Lost Colony" (2025) 9. Island Free Press — "Searching for the Lost Colony on Hatteras Island" (2015) 10. Outer Banks Voice — "Unraveling the Mystery of the Lost Colony" (2025) 11. Outer Banks Voice — "New Evidence From Hatteras Reshapes the Lost Colony Story" (March 2026) 12. Coastal Review — "'Science on the Sound' to Dig Into 16th-Century Hatteras" (March 2026) 13. HISTORY.com — "Did the Lost Colony of Roanoke Disappear or Just Assimilate?" (2025) 14. Live Science — "'Lost Colony' of Roanoke May Have Assimilated Into Indigenous Society, Archaeologist Claims" (2025) 15. First Colony Foundation — "How First Colony Foundation Found the Lost Colony of Roanoke" ( firstcolonyfoundation.org ) 16. First Colony Foundation — "Hidden Images Revealed on Elizabethan Map of America" (2013) 17. Popular Archaeology — "Lost and Found: The Evidence for the Lost Colony" 18. American Heritage — "Has Roanoke's Lost Colony Been Found?" (David Beers Quinn analysis) 19. Encyclopedia Virginia — "William Strachey (1572–1621)" 20. History Collection — "The Lost Colony of Roanoke: 8 Theories About the Mysterious Island and Its Inhabitants" 21. NCpedia — "CROATOAN" and "The Dare Stones" 22. Mental Floss — "The Dare Stones: The Elaborate Hoax That 'Solved' the Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke" (2023) 23. Wikipedia — "Dare Stones" (accessed 2026) 24. National Geographic — "Is This Stone a Forgery—or the Answer to the Lost Colony of Roanoke Mystery?" (2022) 25. Brenau University — "Policy Regarding the Dare Stones" ( brenau.edu ) 26. David W. Stahle, Malcolm K. Cleaveland, Dennis B. Blanton, Matthew D. Therrell, David A. Gay — "The Lost Colony and Jamestown Droughts," Science, Vol. 280, Issue 5363 (April 24, 1998)

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